Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-02
sENIFING IN TWO DISTRICTS"

Under the above heading there appears
elsewhere In THE GAZETTE to-day an
article from the Dallas News, which, if it
has purpose at all, must be taken as q
suggestion to the threatened New Dem
ocracy Of Texas to exclude from their
councils all men who voted tor state pre-
hibition, since it cannot be possible to
distinguish among the voters for state
prohibition those who voted for and
those who voted against Abbott and
Mills. 1t also suggests that "the 1900
colored Republicans Of Harrison county
who voted for Ross" indicate where the
leaders of the forthcoming New Dem
ocracy of Texas may look for recruits to
ill the places made vacant by the eX-
clusion Of men who have always acted
with the Old Democracy of Texas. The
News has developed g wonderful concern
for the sanctlty OF Democratic nomi-
nations, and, in view of all the
past, it nay not be uDgenerous to
suspect that democracy" made
up of colored and other Republic
can voters would be more palatable
to the News than one fashioned of the
Democratic material which the News has
50 often tried to disfgure.
The intelligent voters OF the Sixth
Congressional district will be greatly
surprised to learn that "the prohibition
idea Was at the bottom Of the Democratic
disafection in Abbott's district" Not
one in thousand of them, perhaps,
knew last November whether Mr.. Abbott
was or was not Prohibitionist; but they
did know that there is a very strong
'Greenback" vote in the district, and
that the labor trouble OF last year was
utilized by q certain gentleman who is
now among the leaders Of that New
Democracy which the News evidently de
sires TO create by misceg enation with
colored Republican voters in Harrison
and other counties; these voters of tue
Sixth district also know that Mr.. Abbott
was compromise candidate, and
that whatever "dissffection" existed
was born Of the causes which
lie in Greenbackism and the labor agita-
ton, and that 1.-THE prohibition idea" had
no more to do with the Abbott vote than
with the revolutions Of the earth. Dial
las city voted against Abbott and prohibi-
ton, and Fort Worth voted for Abbott
and prohibition.
The "defection" in the Ninth district
was due as much if not more to personal
resentment than to "the prohibition
idea" otherwise, Governor Ross, who
is as pronounced an anti-Prohibitionist
as any msn in the state, would not have
received 1904 more votes than did Mr..
Mills. And if "the prohibition idea" hsd
aught to do with the Abbott vote, it is
passing strange that Governor Ross, who
was known to be an uncompromising
opponent of prohibition, should have re
ceived 1lj9 more totes than did Mr..
Alb bolt, whose views on prohibition were
/ not known to dozen men in the Sixth
| district. Mr.. Mills was reported to have
said that 70 man could be a Prohibition
/ ist and Democrat, and several other
bitter things about Prohibitionists. And
men who are now and have been lifelong
Democrats, resented this by scratching
Mr.. Mills name. If the News is appraised
Of any method for controlling the per
sonal feelings of men, it will no doubt
give its New Democracy the recipe, and
thus save it from what happens to every
party in every state in the Union.
THE GAZETTE believes that the only
way to maintain party organization, and
to achieve the purposes of such Or
/ gqnizatiOn is TO "vote the ticket straight"
This paper takes its Democracy that way
and always expects to do so. The man
who claims to be Democrat and asserts
his independence Of party action ought
never to sully bis pure soul by participa
ton in Democratic convention; but tha
! right to personal resentment is Older
than parties and no party fSalty can over
come it, and candidates for popular favor
cannot expect to be permitted to ruth
lessly tread upon the popular corns.
In any event, it is not for those who
proclaim their own independence ofpsrty
machinery" TO set up as teachers o
partisan fealty and party discipline. Ac
knowledging no allegiance to the Demo
cratic party the Dallas News mus: re-
strict its advice to that New Democracy
in which DeGress will be more at home
than Will Reagan and Maxey.
as TO NEXT YEAR.
THE GAZETTE has presented to the pub